Workman s time register



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WORKMAN'S TIME REGISTER.

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J. B. RHODES. WORKMAN'S TIME REGISTEB..

No. 432.562. f Patented July 22, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O OFFICE.

JAY B. RHODES, OF KALAIVIZOO, MICI'IIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE R.

SHEPARDSON, CHARLES D. HANSOOMB, AND BYRON 7. SHEPARD- SON, ALL OF SAME PLACE.

WORKMANiS TlME-REGlSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,562, dated July 22, 1890.

Application tile March 26, 1890. Serial No. 345,423. (No modelJ To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAY B. RHODEs, a citizen of the United States, residing` at Kalamazoo, eounty of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have inventcd a new and useful Torkmanis Time-Register, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices in which the workmen deposit their individual checks in the trays or boxes which bear characters indicating` the hour and some subdivision of the hour at which they come to the factory in commencing their days work.

The main object of this invention consists in a construction in which conveyers are attaehed to the posts of the minute-hand and post of the hour-handof aclock, and in which are employed a series of trays having a coinpart'nient into which the checks registering the hours are deposited and a compartment into which the checks register-ing the fractional portions of the hours are deposited, and above the open tops of which trays the conveyers rotate around the central axis or handposts of the clock to which the conveyers are attachedin a manner that at any time when the workm an deposits his hour-check and minute-check into the months of said conveyers they will be conyeyed into the proper com partments of the trays to register the time he entered the factoryto engage in his labors of the day.

The design in this invention is, as heroin illustrated, that the hour and the minutes within five minutes before and after the given hour will be registered; but the machinemay be made to register a less number of minutes by employing` a reater number of boxes into which the checks are deposited.

Other objects consist in the peculiar construction and combination of parts described and olaimed below.

In the drawings forming' a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan View of parts in Fig. 2 with the outercasing removcd. Fig. 2 is a section on line 3 3in Fig. 1 with the outer casing attached. Fig. 3 is an elevation oflettered details inFig. 1, looking from a point at the left. Fig. 4 is a vplan of broken details in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged pcrspective of one of the trays. Fig'. G is a plan of abroken portion of the case in Fig. 1, and Fig. 7 is a plan and edge View of the differentsized ehecks employed by the workmen in registering their time.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawing's, A is the base upon which the register is mounted, and ll shows a case upon said base and inclosing the mechanism. I employ an ordinary clock B, mounted upon the base A at the center-that is, a clock in which the ordinary Subdivisions of time are arranged for' twelve hours and for the sixty minutes for each hour. Around this clock are arrang'ed a series of traysor boxes L, each box having; a front and rear compartment, the front compartments bearing` characters indicating` the hours from one to twelve, as shown in Fig. 1, and the rear compartmen ts beari ng characters indicating one-twelfth of an hour each; hence there are twelve of these boxes, and they are made with the sides converging from the front end toward the clock and radiating` from the latter.

Through the upper inclosure of the case H are inade two slots differing in length and Width, as shown in Fig. (3 and at t and t' in Fig. 2. Immediately beneath the slots are arranged the funnel-shaped months O D of the conveyers G F. The funnel-mouth O of the conveyer G is disconnected from said conveyer, but extends' into it, like the base of a funn'el, as shown in Fig. 2. The funnel--mouth D is smaller than the month O, the latter surronnding` the month D and being` attached to the conveyer F at the point wherel it passes through said funnel-month (J. The obj ect of this is in order to allow the conveyer F to pass from one of the hour-compartments to another, while the conveyer G makes one circuit around the register. The conveycr F is attached by a bar t' to the hour-hand post u of the clock B. Thus the checks o* which represent hours are deposited in the hour-compartment of the boxes L. The conveyer G is attached to the minute-hand post o of the clock B, and thus the checks yr' representing minutes are deposited in the minute-eompartments of the boxes Ity this means the workman, by putting a check into each slot, (which checks of course will bear his own number, as indicated at 2 S in Fig. 5,) will register the time within five minutes at which he entered the factory.

By changing the size of the minute-compartments the apparatus may be arranged to register a less portion of time than five minutes within the hour; but it is dcemed for all practical purposes that a registerjing device made upon the plan as heroin illustrated will register the time suiticiently accnratc.

It is deemcd very important thatthe ehecks fr r', as shown in Figs. 2 and 7, should be of different diameter and of a different thickness. To illustrate, it is deemed the best plan to have the hour-ehecks smaller in diaineter and greater in thickncss than the minute-ehecks, one object being to deposit the lightest ehecks Ir through the longest conveyer; but of course the main object is to guard against any possibility of getting both ehecksin one slot. In Fig. 1 the conveyers are in su ch a position that the time registered by the checks is l minutes to 3 or l minutes past Before the houreonveyer has moved far enough to deposit checks into the threc-oiclock hour-eompartment the minute-conveycr will have passed over the fifty-lninute eompartment and the fii't-y-tive-minute eom1iartment, thus registering 2 oclock and 50 minutes and 2 oclock and 55 minutes, as the case may be, should checks be deposited at such times as the minute-conveyer is passing over said minute-eompartments. Then the hour-convcyer F is in position to deposit checks into the three-olclock eompartment, of course the minute-conveyer G will be in position to deposit cheeks into the sixty-minute eompartment, thus operating on the same principle as the hands of a clock, supposing, for the sake of illustration, the conveyers G and F to reprcsent said hands.

It will be observed in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 that the conveyers G F are provided at the lower end with llexible terminals e and e', or they may not be flexible, so long as they are tlexibly attached to said conveyers or hinged thereto in a manner to yield or tilt when coming in contact with anything. The objectof these ilexible terminals is to bridge over the space occupied by the contiguous side walls of the trays which separate the eompartments of one trayfrom those of the next one. This prevents (to illustrate) the checks r (reference being now had to Figs. l and 3) from being deposited into the three-oiclock compartmentuntil the conveyer G has reached the Sixty-minute eompartment, and of course, on the other hand, the terminals c will prevcnt an improper deposit of the checks -r' in relation to the dcposit of the other checks `r, and this arrangement and operation of parts of course holds good in relation to all of the other time-registering compartments in alike relation with the conveyers. Thus the time (within the space of five minutes) at which a workman comes to the :factory can be ascertained by examining the cheeks and the trays at the end of the days labor. The design is that this examination may be accomplished by either removing the case li, or adoor may be made in one side of said case, through which the trays, one at a time, maybe taken out and passed in.

At I .is a revoluble floor surrounding the clock l and mounted upon a series of rollers S, which rollers are in a circular groove in the upper side of the base A and the under side of the floor I, as indicated in Fgs. 2, 3, and -l-. This fioor I has raised ribs on its upper side, as shown in Figs. 3 and i. These ribs converge from the outer end toward the clock, and the trays are inserted between them, as in Fig.

Above the trays L and surrounding the clock B is a skeleton frame-work c, which has radiating bars which have an apex, as at Figs. 2 and 3, and which bars cover the space between the compartments of one tray and those of another. This skeleton frame is supported by post-s which project upward from the floor I, at the outer and inner ends of the bars a, as elearly shown in Figs. 2 and The object of having` the bars a provided with the apeX is to allow the terminal ends of the eheck-conveyers e and e' to readily pass over from one eompartment into the other, as indicated in Fig. 3, in which ligure the terminal c will so trip over into the next eompartment. y means of thus constructing a revoluble support for the trays Ir the examiner can from a given point bring` any and all the boxes around the said point when desiring to exarnine their contents.

At m, in Ifigs. 2 and S, is a Spring-catch, which catches up into a niche in the bottom of the floor I, beneath each tray, and thus holds the tray support fixed in given positions while taking out and putting in said trays.

In order to eounterlmlance the weight of the conveyers attached to the posts 1' /u,I have cxtended the arnis n to the rearward and attached thereto balancing-weights 3 4.

At 0 in Fig. 2, the rear extended ends of the arms a are provided with poin ters, which may be employed by setting them at the proper points to pointto the character repre- Senting given hours and minutes upon the dial-plate of the clock without any regard to having the conveyers G and F occupy the position that the hour and minute hands of a clock would occupy in their relation to the characters on the (liai-plate.

Having thus described my in vention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLettcrs Patent of the United States, is-

1. The combination of the clock, the minute-eonveyer and the hour-conveyer attached to the minute-hand post and the hour-hand post of the clock, and the series of trays around the clock and radiating therefrom,

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said trays having the minute-compartments and the hour-compartments, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the clock, the hourconveyer and the minute-conveyer attached to the minute-hand post and to the hour-hand post of the clock, the trays having the minute-compartlnent and the hour-compartinent, said trays being arranged around the clock, and a support for said trays surrounding the clock and mounted upon revoluble bearings, substantially as set forth.

3. The'combinaton of the clock, the hourconveyer and the minute-conveyer attached to the minute-hand post and the hour-hand post of the clock, the trays having the two compartments, the tray support mounted upon revoluble bearings, the skeleton frame supported from said tray-support above the trays, said frame having the radial bars over the contiguous edges of the trays, and the fiexible terminals at theloWer end of thehour and minute conveyers, substantially as set forth. p 4. The combination of the clock and the minute and the hour conveyer, the doublecompartment trays, and a case covering said parts and having slots of different sizes, through which slots the time-checks are dropped into the conveyers, and time-checks of different thickness and diameter, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination of the clock, the conveyers attached one to the hour-hand post and the other to the minute-hand post of the clock, the series of double-compartment trays, a funnel-mouth for one of the conveyers and disconnectedtherefrom, the other conveyer having a funnelanouth attached to and surrounded by the disconnected mouth, and a case inclosing said parts and having slots registering With the months of the conveyers, through which the cheoks are deposited, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination of the clock, the minute-conveyer and the hour-conveyer attached to the minute-hand post of the clock, said conveyers being attached to said parts by arms which extend beyond said posts, and couuterbalancing-Weights on said extending arms, and the series of trays around the clock and radiating therefrom, said trays having the minute-compartments and the hour-compartments, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribcd my name in presence of two Witnesses.

JAY' B. RHoDEs.

Witnesses:

CHARLES D. I-IANscoMB, BYRON W. SHEPARDsoN. 

